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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1977 ONTARIO
Serving Brussels and the surrounding community.
Published each Wednesday afternoon at Brussels, Ontario
by McLean Bros. Publishers, Limited.
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Amen
by Karl Schuessler
It's your money
Everybody is interested in the new Brussels,
Morris and Grey Community Centre, right?
Wrong, if the attendance at Monday night's arena
building corn ittee meeting is any indication.
The orgar 3rs of the new community centre
committee have been criticized a bit in the past for
not doing all their business in the public eye. To try
and remedy that criticism the arena committee has
gone out of its way to let the public know that they're
welcome at meetings, which are held the second last
Monday of each month, in the fire hall in Brussels.
All they got for their efforts this week, was an even
smaller attendance than usual.
We can't blame the lack of interest on the weather
this time. This Monday was the first in several weeks
that gave us decent driving and going out to a
meeting weather.
Judging from all the activities that have been
going on in Brussels recently, it could be that those
who are interested in our new community centre are
just meeting-ed to death.
But perhaps interest will be revived with the
reminder that more than half a million dollars will be
spent on the new Brussels, Morris and Grey
Community Centre. The committee hopes to be
calling for tenders next month.
There's room for volunteer help in many stages of
the arena planning and there's room for interested
citizens to express their opinions, not as harping
criticism, but as helpful suggestion.
It's up to you to attend the next, and future, arena
committee meetings.
To the editor
Join the hunt
All About Us and Heritage Canada invite the
people of your community, and especially the
students, to join the "Great Canadian
Heritage Hunt."
February 21, 1977 is Heritage Day across
Canada, a day to appreciate the surviving
accomplishments of earlier community
builders, and to talk with the people who were
young when our country was young.
Each community has its own heritage
visible in the buildings, craftsmanship,
customs and values of older times. These
treasures can be discovered, particularly if our
young people will lend their considerable
energies to the search. We invite school-age
Canadians to record their findings in original
drawings, paintings, stories, poetry and
interviews, and send them to All About Us.
They will be published and exhibited across
Canada.
All About Us and Heritage Canada are both
non-government, non-profit organizations
working together to encourage the apprecia-
tion of Canada's heritage, and the conserva-
tion of the best of our built and natural
environment.
Please send Materials 21., jut your
community's heritage or write for an
information kit to All About Us, Box 1985,
Ottawa, Cahada, KIP 5R5. We want to
discover how our young people view their
country, for it is they who Will carry the good
things of the past and present into the future.
Heritage Day is a time when people of all
ages can share in appreciating their own
heritage. Join the Celebration!
Betty Nickerson
National Coordinator All About Us
Pierre Berton
Acting Chairt an Heritage Canada
I was
' I'm on my knees -- to Marie.
See me, Marie, down, scraping and
bowing. Asking for pardon. I'm making full
confession.
Sin number one. I used the wrong word
when I was talking last week about the way
the old timers kept warm.
Remember? I said the Meyer family
used two large umbrellas to keep off the
wind as they drove along in their cutter. I
wrote those umbrellas were made of heavy
canvas.
Now, anyone with any sense knows those
umbrellas weren't made of canvas. Marie,
you wouldn't say a thing like that, would
you? But I would.
I checked the tape. When I talked with
you I had my thin recorder running -- lust
to make sure I'd be accurate.
Well, inaccurate I was. Stupid I was.
And I want to make sure that no one's
goi ng to think Marie's stupid for making
such a statement.It's all my mistake. On
tape Marie says the wind umbrellas are
made of sturdy cotton. Tightly woven
cotton.
So what's this idea of mine? Heavy
canvas. How could I ever say a thing like
that? Of course that does get us into what
exactly is the difference between sturdy
cotton and canvas, but no matter. I set the
record straight, -- with apologies. A tightly
woven cotton material.
But even more important. Sin number 2.
It's not that I wasn't right in my reporting.
It's just I didn't use much tact.
Things may be true, but that doesn't
mean they have to be said things like
long winter underwear, and especially
dirty underwear; and more especially, your
own family's underwear.
I know, Marie. We shouldn't hang our
dirty underwear on the line for everyone to
see. Of course, the fact we all wear
underwear and that it all gets dirty has
nothing to do with it. Some things are best
left unspoken.
I'm on my knees, Marie. My apology.
Please don't stop talking to me. You're one
of the best story tellers around these parts.
I couldn't stand it if you'd stop reminiscing
with me anymore. Honest. I want to wash
To he editor
hi 1970 I began an exhaustive search for
ancestry on my father's side since he died of
hereditary nephritis in 1958 and it has affected
several of my sisters as well as their Children.
His father, George Henry Lawson, was born
1863 in Kinburn, Hullett ToWnShip, Huron
County, Ontario, the son of John Lawson and
Margaret Patterson. In 1864 they went to
Hancock Co., Illinois where Margaret had a
sister ISabelle, the wife of George Pease.
John and Margaret. later moved to Clay
Co.; Kansas where they were soon joined by
her brother James Patterson and Wife Isabell
Watt of Morris Township, Huron Co.,
Ontario.
Margaret WAS daug hter of John FiattersOn
stupid!
everything clean. Make things right again.
Besides, you said it yourSelf. Clean
underwear is warmer than the dirty kind.
So I promise.I'll come clean. Try to warm
things up between us.
But, gee, Marie, I'm surprised at you.
Getting all upset over some dirt. I never
figured you were like all those women I see
on the T.V.commercials. Those housewives
seem to have only one thing on their
mind.CLEAN. CLEAN . CLEAN.
If y ou bell eyed all the ads, the only ,
thing the housewife's after is dirt. There
she is. Scrubbing and waxing the floors.
Wasting all her smiles and ecstacies on ,
clean floors. Forget about the hushand and
kids. Or she's needling her husband in. the
basement about his "wreck" idom. Or
she's spraying some deodorant in the
bathroom. Rubbing out some ring-around•
the collar. Or wiping, off grease from a
grimy oven.
Good heavens, you'd start to think
according to the Gospel of T.V. that
cleanliness is next .to godliness. But that's
not in the Bible', folks, no joke. That's a bit
straight out of Ben F rankli n's Poor
Richard's Almanac.
And I'm not buying it. Life isn't all about
garbage in green bags or the Man from
Glad or some white knight on a charger
come to rescue me from this world of dirt.
Dirt's not bad at all. Well, an excess,
yes. But I am made of dust. And to dust I'll
return. So I'm not spending all my life
trying to convince everyone I'm properly
tubbed, rubbed and scrubbed. Or fitfully
lauhdered, deodorized and sanitized to
some adman's perfect*.
Forget it. I'll try to stay relatively clean.
Use soap. Take my shower. Change my
socks and shorts. But I'm not putting
myself on a clean chart -- take a bath
because it's Saturday night. Or shine my
shoes because it's Sunday morning. I'll
come clean when I'm dirty -- and when I'm
ready.
I'm confessing all this to you, Marie.
Let's let bygones be bygones. Please
Marie. I'm on my knees. And they're
getting dirty,. just so I can put myself back
into your clean graces again.
Looks for relatives
and Margaret Bryce' and her father died in
Wingham in 1885As far as can be determined,
her sister Agnes, wife•of Charles Granger and
her sister Grace, wife of Edward Cash stayed
in Huron Co., Ontario.
Also her brothers, William and Michael C.
with'his wife Mary Ann and children Rebecca,
Johtl, Michael, William and Margaret and
JameS stayed around Wingham.
I ani very interested in any information on
the Lawson, Patterson; Bryce, Pease;
Granger, Cash, Watt, Canipbell, Young,
Nicol, Dean, Setitheriand and other related
iatnilieS, Write to Richard LawSon, Sr.,
Box Clifton, Kansas, 66037, U.S.A.
Sincerely;
Richard D. iawson, Sr.